Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Is there an easy way to tell what commit a branch is branched off from? > Also, it there a way to tell what branch the branch is branched off > from? > > I know I can use gitk to give a visual diagram, but I want something I > can feed into a program. First you can check branch.<branchname>.merge configuration option (with git-config) to check what branch (by _remote_ name) given branch is based on. Second, you can use "git merge-base <branchname> <second branch>" to find common ancestor, i.e. branching point of two branches. By the way, there is shortcut a..b and a...b for revision ranges: see documentation in git-rev-parse (or was it git-rev-list?). -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
